St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-08

The coroner had selected for jurymen
Tx intelligent men of sterling character.
men whose Judgment could not be Ques-
toned and whose names are familiar to
every citizen. They were d. II. Moon,
Frank Keogh, ]. F. Witt, S. K. Howes,
Alfred Dufresne and Ernest Albrecht.
Both Attorneys Erwin and Ryan were
present to represent the interests of Mrs.
degener, and Assistant Prosecuting At
torney Mum watched the proceedings on
behalf of the state.
Very little was developed in the testi
monv which was not given to the public in
yesterday mornings GLOBE. Drs Mir
ply and Hoyt. who attended Murphy. and
made the autopsy. gave evidence as to the
direct cause of death. The bullet had been
found in the base of the brain. badly
mashed. DR.. Welles, physician, and Pat
rick Mitchell, nurse at the hospital told the
tale of the death bed. Sergeant Ernest
Boerner and Police Officers John Cooke
and Roman MaZnette, who were called to
the spot where Murphy fell, testified to the
occurrences Immediately subsequent to
the shooting. August Poscheneider. a
teamster for the Armour Packing
company, swOre to having seen
Mrs. Hegener fire the shot while she was
standing not more than three feet behind
Murphy. Harry E. Miner, ticket agent
of the Minneapolis IL st. Louis railway,
and George Dufour. foreman for st. Aubin
~ Dion. who were first ON the spot when
Murphy fell. corroborated Poscheneider's
testimony. Leonard Schweber, proprietor
of the Winona house. corner of Third and
Sibley, where Mrs. Hegener first met Muir
ply on her arrival from Minneapolis, told
how he overheard hot words between them,
ltI,o cIa fol ,l,-o
fore he heard the report of the pistol. This
point was covered more fully in the testi-
meny of Otto Wettwerr, who told precisely
the same story as accredited him in tile
ILoBE yesterday.
Arthur Thompson. the witness whose
testimony is of the greatest importance as
showing the previous relations of Murphy
and Mrs. Hegener, and the motive which
impefled her to shoot him. was kept upon
the stand for some time His story differed
little FROM the version published in this pa
per Yesterday. He told it in a stralghtfor-
ward manner and in an earnest tone of
sincerity. He was revealing the periidy of
his friend Murphy, over whose dying bed
side he wept bitterly, III the interests of
justice and right to the woman who was
wronged.
THE WRITTEN CONFESSION
OF Murphy made Monday night, acknowl-
edging the falsity of his previous charges,
was shown Thompson, and he identified it.
He swore that Murphy had written and
signed it in his presence and in the pres
ence of Mr.. Nilsson at the Parker house.
An affecting scene followed when the wit
eless was asked to read the statement to the
Jury. He broke down twice while reading.
The full text of that statement is as fol.
lows:
Dear Charley: By the time you get this
will be great ways Off. can face you now
then no longer. played my part we'll for a
long time, Forget me Charley | cannot
hope for forgiveness i'll this or the next
world. Listen to what l now have to saw
have got the blacklist heart of any man on
earth. / had il in for your wife all winter
had several good chances. 1t would
not have made me so mad. but the way sb.
sometimes talked it looked as though she was
drawing me on only to laugh at me- prayed
for chance to get even. What made INV
game better you doubt (the word doubt is
changed to Thought in penciD that was
too familiar, and took advantage of every.
thing to strengthen that doubt. (.Doubt'' Is
here again changed to ''thoueht'' in
pencil) My story looks straight. but
Charley, there isn't Voru of tfYltF
in il. ! am 100 nervous TO write mere
but will write 10 you again aud explain
everything but don't doubt Bertha Shc
may be & lille Wild, but SIZE is true to you